Found 10 collections related toGreat Britain. Army

Details of uniforms and equipment of the British army, 1742-1881, collected by Samuel M. Milne of Leeds, England ca. 1913. Includes specimens of cloth, braid, and other material, mounted, with descriptive notes in manuscript, colored sketches,...
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Details of uniforms and equipment of the British army, 1742-1881, collected by Samuel M. Milne of Leeds, England ca. 1913. Includes specimens of cloth, braid, and other material, mounted, with descriptive notes in manuscript, colored sketches, photographs, drawings, and letters relating to the specimens
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Sir John Maxwell Tylden, a captain in the 43rd regiment of the British Army, kept this diary on an expedition from England to New Orleans, Louisiana. Entries date from October 27, 1814-May 10, 1815. Tylden records operations before New Orleans and...
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Sir John Maxwell Tylden, a captain in the 43rd regiment of the British Army, kept this diary on an expedition from England to New Orleans, Louisiana. Entries date from October 27, 1814-May 10, 1815. Tylden records operations before New Orleans and at Mobile Bay and describes social and political life in Havana, Bermuda, and other locations. The diary includes watercolor sketches of coast lands, as well as a portrait of Tylden copied by Mrs. G.W. Smith
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Members of the Bancker family included Evert Bancker (1721-1803), his cousins Gerard Bancker (1740-1799) and Evert Bancker, Jr. (1734- ), and Charles Nicoll Bancker (1778-1869), son of Evert, Jr. The elder Evert Bancker was partner with Gerard...
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Members of the Bancker family included Evert Bancker (1721-1803), his cousins Gerard Bancker (1740-1799) and Evert Bancker, Jr. (1734- ), and Charles Nicoll Bancker (1778-1869), son of Evert, Jr. The elder Evert Bancker was partner with Gerard Bancker and from 1767 until 1776 they were the principal provisioners to the British forces in New York City. Evert Bancker was also a deputy to the 2nd-4th Provisional Congresses of New York, speaker of the new State Assembly, and a member of the Committee of Safety, later the Council of Safety. Gerard Bancker was treasurer of the province and then state of New York. His brother Evert Bancker, Jr., was a surveyor, merchant and loyalist in New York City. Charles N. Bancker was president of the Franklin Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia from 1837 to 1869, a naturalist and an astronomer. Collection consists of correspondence, accounts, family papers, military records, surveyor's book, petitions, and land papers. Bulk of the collection is correspondence including letters, 1743-1803, to Evert Bancker, Jr., from merchants, customers, family, and friends; and letters, 1843-1862, to Charles N. Bancker from agents in London concerning his acquisition of scientific books, instruments and apparatus. Also, accounts, 1767-1776, relating to the business of Evert and Gerard Bancker as provisioners to the British; family accounts; subpoenas and surveyor's book, ca. 1800, of Evert Bancker, Jr.; muster rolls and orders of loyalist militia in New York City; petitions to the British government; and some land papers.
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Edward Thomas Michell, British brigadier-general. To the Reverend John Michell, Vicar of Fairford (his father) : 1 autograph letter signed : 22 Aug 1818 : (MISC 2217) : from Calais : begins, "So good an opportunity as John Reynolds's return to England induces me to write you a few words ...".
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To William Young at the Sun Newspaper office, Strand, London : 1 autograph letter signed : 13 Nov 1828 : (S'ANA 0465) : from Bromham Devizes : begins, "As you were so good enough to make me an offer of your services in town I have taken the...
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To William Young at the Sun Newspaper office, Strand, London : 1 autograph letter signed : 13 Nov 1828 : (S'ANA 0465) : from Bromham Devizes : begins, "As you were so good enough to make me an offer of your services in town I have taken the liberty of enclosing a paper that I have just received from Mr. Thomas Moore, the poet ...".
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John Michell, British army officer. To Jane Michell, his wife : 1 autograph letter signed : 27-29 Jan 1814 : (MISC 2216) : from Villefranche : begins, "Another dreary fortnight has lapsed without my hearing any news of you. You will judge of my...
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John Michell, British army officer. To Jane Michell, his wife : 1 autograph letter signed : 27-29 Jan 1814 : (MISC 2216) : from Villefranche : begins, "Another dreary fortnight has lapsed without my hearing any news of you. You will judge of my anxiety ...".
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Poems written between 1776-1815 the earlier ones while serving in the British Army at Halifax Nova Scotia and New York. Also includes his translations of Horace's Odes (Book I, odes 22 and 26) and miscellaneous notes.